I cannot believe that this year is almost over. I spent a good part of this last month wishing it would fly by so that I could go home, see my family and friends, and relax in NH before leaving for Middlebury for the summer. Now? Now I want to stay. Now I want time to slow down. Now is when pre-leaving nostalgia and sentimentality begins.

Now, really? I still have exams to think about!

Actually, I have spent this entire past weekend NOT thinking about exams and basically blowing off any work I have to do. This is bad, because I now have a paper due tomorrow that I have not started, but it is also good. I feel as though I have changed for the better in this past year. Anyone who knows me well knows that I do not put off work. I do not start things at the last minute. Well, I do, but I often spend a great deal of time agonizing over what I have to do in upcoming days. Yesterday, instead, I went to the beach at Cinque Terre and did absolutely no reading or studying. A miracle, if you ask me.

It was such a perfect day. Or, more like a perfect weekend. Lunches out with the Smith girls, my first moped ride, hiking at Cinque Terre & an amazing swim afterwards; even the delay of ALL of our trains while trying to get home last night didn’t bother me as much. Sure, it sucks getting in at midnight when you were supposed to arrive at 9, but we made it and that’s what counts.

Now time to get to work. Anyone know anything about Mazzini?

Yeah, me neither.

Cinque Terre

Music for Today: Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead

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